TRUMP MORPHS INTO 'ESTABLISHMENT' IN RECORD TIME?

All Presidents eventually “acclimatize” to the Washington culture of power, money and corruption and become part of the “establishment”.  Mr. Trump seems to have made the “transition” in warp speed. 

Trump has had a few unsettling days since sending off the shed-load of cruise missiles into Syria.  His flash turnaround on Syria and Russia after viewing  a few TV images and photographs has unsettled the “America First Crowd” in the Manchester Diner, here in Vermont.  The locals are worried that with the turnaround in foreign policy to a more aggressive “Bush-like stance”  Mr. Trump will have to shelve his promises to the working and middle classes in the hinterland of Vermont and the rust belt states that elected him to the job.  These working folks know that you can not get blood from a stone. An “establishment Trump” will be spending more tax payer’s trillions on adventures abroad and ME wars and that would mean an end to the promises Mr. Trump made about: America First, jobs, building the wall,  etc., etc.  Mr. Tump may be able to make these 180 degree flash turns in policy, but  the  rest of us, hide-bound by rationality and logic, need time to “catch up” —if they will want to or if that will ever be possible. 

Apparently there is a massive “reboot” going on in the Trump White House. The politicians  are morphing  Mr. Trump from a fresh faced establishment novice “outsider” into a hardened Washington pol. The “establishment” types, neo-cons, Bush hold-overs, scarred up old war hawks and the armchair variety have all got to the new President’s ear and sold him a bill of goods on Syria and Russia.   Has our President of the campaign evolved into a big fat ‘gator lyin’ in the sun” in the warm dank swamp water?  We can not be sure.  Unlike Mr. Trump we need evidence to alter our long-held and considered positions.

The issues, needs, policies and programs that launched Mr. Trump's popularity---and his election--are still with us.  Why would he abandon them?